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I'm reluctant to "name names" because I don't think it's particularly dignified. People shift tactics and allegiances all the time. Ronald Reagan was an unapologetic Democrat before he became the patron saint of the modern Republican Party. Dick Morris worked for Bill Clinton before becoming a Republican -- while David Brock flipped prominently in the opposite direction. And to turn to a very specific and current media example, Glenn Beck has prominently recanted some of his own worst behavior. People can (and do) sometimes change, so I'd like to avoid going on the permanent record as being "against" someone when I hold out hope that they might end up seeing the light. At least for today, I'd like to bite my tongue.

But I do not have the same hesitation about railing against the behaviors to which I object so strongly. Here are some of my complaints:

Imposter conservatives expect protection from the state from things they don't like.

Imposter conservatives fear competition.

Imposter conservatives drive forward by staring into the rear-view mirror.

Imposter conservatives reject the indispensability of American leadership in the world.

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Subject line/message: Dear Brian, just happened to tune in to WHO. I could feel your liberal slip showing immediately. So, Brian, have you ever taken to task the media that has completely gone negative in all of its reporting of President Trump.

Response:
Thanks for reaching out. I'm afraid the only thing you sent me was a truncated message in the subject line, so if you had more to say, you're welcome to write back.

I would ask you to consider the following:

Calling people names is behavior unbecoming of an adult. If you want me to take your criticisms seriously, saying things like "your liberal slip [is] showing" is an ineffective way to do it.
I'm not sure what causes you to think I'm "liberal" (assuming by that you mean "leftist"). I'm a free-market capitalist who believes in limited government and the rule of law. I have consistently embraced those positions since I started hosting my show on WHO Radio 14 years ago. If you sampled one segment of one episode and concluded that I'm a left-winger, I would encourage you to listen to anything in my back catalog of shows. They're all available here: http://whoradio.iheart.com/media/podcast-gongol/
Have I criticized anyone in the media? Of course I have. Do I think "the media" has gone "all negative on Trump"? No. I think there is a lot of critical coverage, but I think he creates more than enough material all on his own. I expect the media to be critical or even adversarial with those in power, because that's the point of the First Amendment...no matter who occupies the Oval Office.

I seek to be specific in my criticisms of the President, just as I tried to be specific about criticizing Presidents Obama and Bush before him. I have a very long list of criticisms of President Trump, just as I did for President Obama, and most of them stem from his deviations from the conservative principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and the rule of law.

When he deviates from those principles, he's not being a conservative, and when I call him out for those deviations, I'm not being a leftist or a liberal. I'm standing on the same principles that have defined the center-right of American politics for at least a century.

Segment 5:

Make money

Segment 6:

By the numbers

The shortage of housing in the San Francisco Bay area is apparently at titanic proportions. KGO quotes a housing official as saying there have been 500,000 new jobs created and only 50,000 new housing units built in the last half-decade. The resulting shortage appears to be creating strain all over the place, including among senior citizens who now can't afford housing. The fact that sufficient new housing hasn't been produced when demand should be somewhere on the scale of ten times new supply suggests that some kind of regulatory or resource constraint is creating a massive chokepoint. And, when in doubt, assume that developers will find a way to overcome the resource constraint (like available land) with money (like building taller towers), so there's a pretty good chance you're looking at a regulatory choke.